Welcome to Windows 7 Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find support and solutions for any problems regarding your Windows 7 PC be it Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. We also provide an extensive Windows 7 tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks.

Pay close attention to the sections in Red about how driver are best handled in Win7, and the Special Note to HP Owners at the end of the tutorial which explain how to keep the HP built-in diagnostics and Recovery partitions bootable even after a Clean Reinstall. In addition on some late model HP's you can choose a Minimal HP System Recovery from boot which is nearly the same as a Clean Reinstall but includes everything except the bloatware.

Are the files on Digital River retail copies of Windows 7? I don't want enter a product key that won't activate Windows after I cleaned my PC.

All the official iso contain all the images. The difference is a little ei.cfg file, which determines the edition (Ultimate. Pro, etc. ) offered for install. It is there to make it easier for users, so they do not install an edition for which they don't have a key. That can easily be removed, so you have the choice to install any edition from just one iso.

No difference between the retail boxed dvd and the boxed oem (systembuilder) dvd.

Windows 7 Windows.old folder restore failed.... How do I restore?I tried the steps on SevenForums, and Microsoft.com. The Microsoft steps didn't work for me at all and the SevenForums steps didn't either. I tried the RegCure Pro program to fix system errors, and that did not do it. I used an ISO from a website to reinstall my Windows 7 because I wanted to start...

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HP Laptop windows 7 won't start up and can't do a system restore.So the SMART program has warned me about an imminent hard drive crash for a while. Yesterday Windows was installing updates when my dad closed the laptop lid, when I come home afterschool today, I open the lid and it is frozen. Windows warns not to power off during the updates but since it is...

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Laptop with bootleg Windows - Wanting to restore to legit key2 years ago, I bought an Acer laptop that came with Window 7 Home Premium 64-bit. But my boyfriend at the time decided that Home Premium wasn't good enough, so he pirated a copy of Ultimate 64-bit and installed it on my laptop despite me asking him not to. He also "lost" the restore disk.
Fairly...

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Factory Restore Windows 7 on HP Laptop.Hello everyone. I was wondering if someone would be able to help me with this situation. I've been thinking about doing Factory Restore on my HP G62 laptop.
I'm always thinking that there's some sort of spyware or files on here that are monitoring me that I can't find or my Anti-Virus can't...